Promoting Cooperative Strategies to Reduce Racial Profiling

This project provided funding in FY2001 to law enforcement agencies to
respond proactively to racial profiling. The Reducing Racial Profiling
initiative developed best practices and technical assistance guides to help
police agencies reduce racial profiling. It helped local law enforcement
agencies create and strengthen local efforts that built trust between the police
and their communities.

The COPS Office funded the following strategies and topic areas: recruitment
and selection, training and education of police and community members, minority
community engagement initiatives, accountability and supervision, collecting and
analyzing traffic stop data, and using technology to reduce racial profiling and
increase officer safety. Under this project, the COPS Office funded 21 sites at
approximately $200,000 each.